Officials have delayed the launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket with the European-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft from Cape Canaveral by two days to Feb. 7, a ripple effect from time spent fixing a minor issue last week during a ...
Finnish Satellite Workshop: Shop Window For Space Science
By Valerie Vlasenko The third edition of the Finnish Satellite Workshop kicked off on 20-22 January 2020 in Espoo. The major event for the space industry and science in Finland saw a gathering of nearly 800 professionals and covered the most important ...
SpaceX wins contract to launch Egyptian communications satellite
SpaceX and the Egyptian satellite operator Nilesat have signed a contract to launch the Nilesat 301 communications craft on a Falcon 9 rocket in 2022, SpaceX confirmed this week. ...
Spacewalk underway to finish repairs to space station cosmic ray detector
Installing new coolant pumps in a $2 billion cosmic ray detector aboard the International Space Station required three complex spacewalks rivaling work to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. A fourth excursion Saturday was needed to finish the job, verifying spliced coolant lines ...
Astronauts finish repairs to space station cosmic ray detector
During a fourth spacewalk Saturday to wrap up repairs of the coolant system in a $2 billion cosmic ray detector, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and Drew Morgan discovered a leak in one of eight coolant lines that were spliced into a new ...
U.S. Space Force says its new seal is not a Starfleet knockoff
U.S. Space Force statement: The seal “honors the Department of the Air Force’s proud history”
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday evening unveiled on Twitter the seal of the U.S. Space Force.
“After consultation with our Great Military Leaders, designers, and ...
SpaceX delays launch of next batch of Starlink satellites due to bad weather
SatellitePro ME addresses all aspects of the satellite industry, covering the key vertical markets including Oil & Gas, Broadcast, Telco, Maritime, Government & Military, Aviation and Enterprise. Experts discuss the paramount issues within the industry, from interference and regulation to ...
Star Trek’s George Takei tweaks President Trump over Space Force’s trekky new seal
The seal for Star Trek’s fictional Starfleet Command has some design elements in common with the seal for the U.S. Space Force. (CBS / Space Force Images via Twitter)We don’t know whether Mr. ...
Boeing says Spaceway-1 battery failure has low risk of repeating on similar satellites
WASHINGTON — The battery malfunction that put DirecTV’s Spaceway-1 satellite at risk of exploding has a “very low likelihood” of occuring on other satellites, according to the satellite’s manufacturer, Boeing.
Spaceway-1 was the first of three virtually identical Spaceway satellites ...
House introduces NASA authorization bill that emphasizes Mars over moon
WASHINGTON — The leadership of the House Science Committee introduced a NASA authorization bill Jan. 24 that seeks to significantly alter NASA’s current plans to return humans to the moon and make them part of an effort to send humans ...
